1. Across the universe. A great musical of my favourite band, The Beatles. I love all the covers (some more than the original songs), the art work, and all the references to the Beatles. I'll never be tired of watching it!

2. Amelie. I think that movie changed my point of view of life. Also, the colors and the soundrack is excelent.

3. Lord of the rings. I love fantasy movies, I remember whatching it in VHS more than 10 times in one year. When I saw The return of the king I was crying at the end because it was the last movie.

4. Big fish. I always loved stories, and that movie is about great stories.

5. Spirited away. One of my favourite animation movies, I love all of Ghibli movies but this is so special. The soundtrack is amazing!

6. Yes Man. I always loved Jim Carrey's movies, and that is so positive. And with this movie also I discovered Zooey Deschanel!

7. Fried Green Tomatoes. The perfect movie to watch on a Sunday afternoon with a blanket and popcorn. Lovely!

8. Forrest Gump. I like how this movie passes through many eras of the US history

9. Gran Torino. This film marked me so much. The story is beautiful and emotional. And the main theme song is from Jamie Cullum!

10. The science of sleep. This french movie inspired me a lot for writting our short film. When I saw It I thought that I wanted to do something similar with that handmade-like effects. It's so beautiful!

I hope you liked my list. Have you seen some of these films? what are yours? I would like to read yours!

Recently I wrote a post with some accusations to some copycat. I don't know if you read it, I was very angry when I wrote it. And when I published it, first I felt powerful, but then I felt very bad and I deleted it.
When I've seen that I had a lot of views in one moment, I thought one thing: I don't want to have more views because of that incident. I want to have more views of my blog because my work is good. In this blog only happy things are allowed!
And another thing, I wasted all my afternoon angry and writting that post, I could have done something more interesting and positive than writting that stupid thing!Tomorrow I'm gonna work x2!

That post that Melissa sent me made me reflect, it's really good.And thank you for all positive comments! :)

Fran and I went to Estonia in June of 2011. We had to stopover in Oslo, and after seeing that spend one night was too expensive for us, we decided to sleep in the airport. We couldn't sleep because we don't knew that there in summer is practically always day. So, at 4 am we decide to explore arround the airport (it was totally day haha) and we found a very nice places:

Tallinn was love at first sight. Just come we saw a concert and it was full of lively people.

Accommodation

We stayed the first few days in the city center, in a back packers of about 10$ per night sharing with more people.

The last days we changed a bit and we had a new experience, we stayed with Egle, a girl who met through a couch surfing website. We slept on his couch, we were talking until dawn, we prepared the food and I prepared a spanish omelette. We enjoyed ourselves so much and we invited her to come to Mallorca when she want.

The bus

One of the first things you need to know if you want to get around the city is that bus tickets are bought at newsstands, not inside the bus. We learned days later, after asking a lot of times why bus drivers looked at us weird (because neither understood English).

The old town
The days we were in the old town, we explored the streets and shops, and also, of course, did a free tour of the city, where they explained its history and its secrets. We went to a couple of thrift stores, and Fankadelic was my favorite store.

Overall visit the city is very cheap, for example, visit the Museum of Photography cost less than 0.50$ if you are a student. We also visited the Occupation Museum dedicated to the period 1939-1991, when Estonia was occupied first by Nazi Germany and then by the USSR, and the open-air ethnographic museum where we could the collection of old houses and farms typical of rural Estonia:

This was a part of our journey, but the best part I will explain in the next post. It was when we made friends and invited us to spend the National Day of Estonia in his cottage. It was an amazing experience!

If you're going to travel to Estonia soon and have some question, you can email me at lauracaldentey@gmail.com
Also you can read when we went to Scotland!

10.10.12

Melissa contacted me via Etsy in July, she wanted a blog header and a few illustrations, and I couldn't be happier! I made my first sale on Etsy. And I couldn't be happier because I loved to work with her. Melissa launched a blog in September called A little vintage life, there she share her daily life, recipes and and her work as a photographer. Her life it's so inspiring (she is going to travel full time with her family in a VA!!!), and her family it's so cute, so it was very easy to draw them.

7.10.12

Recently we were having dinner and Fran's sister, who is 6 years old, suddenly said: Laura, when you'll be older, when you'll be a mom, will you have a store with your cups and your stuff? I will have horses, and people will pay me to go for a ride. And I said: yes, I'll have my store, and it would be very cool to go for a ride with your horses.

I do not know, lately I have many ups and downs, now I'm starting something new and I need time to adapt to that new situation. I have to force myself to work even give me my days off. There are days when I wonder: what I am doing? this doesn't take me anywhere, and others days that I think everything is possible and I'll be fine.

But what else? What if I can not find any work, even in any store? I believe in what I do, and until I see that I've tried over and over again and I didn't succeed, I'll know that I have to do something different.

I have the support of my family, my boyfriend, my friends and all of you, with your comments, and I'm sure that alone wouldn't have gotten even half of where I am now. These people like Fran, Alex, Ana, Flor, Chloe, Zaira ... I think, and if it were not for these people probably I wouldn't even be writing this.

It's hard when I have to break my head learning to color with photoshop myself, when I am on Saturday night sketching or sewing, or when people don't pay for my work and they said that would. Or when I spend the little money I have buying fabric or prints with my ilustrations.

But anyways I think it will take me somewhere, even without no idea where.